last week’s devastating floods
“[The death toll] is an impact of a failure to deal with climate change, not climate change itself,” said Liz Stephens, associate professor at the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Reading University in Britain. How much climate change is responsible for heftier and more frequent downpours is a matter of debate even among scientists who say man-made factors such as greenhouse gas emissions are playing a large role in warming the planet.
One factor meteorologists have blamed for last week’s intense rainfalls was one such configuration of low- and high-pressure areas over Europe, also known as a blocking pattern, that kept the storm hanging over the affected regions for days. Bjørn Hallvard Samset of the Cicero Center for International Climate Research in Norway said that heat waves could be much more easily attributed to climate change than floods, but that most scientists expected extreme temperatures and high precipitation to go hand-in-hand as the climate shifts.
Why not make towns more resistant to floods. Cutting all emissions is not going to stop more extreme weather events from happening.
It demonstrates the poor quality of building. Short term thinking
Wrong It demonstrates stop building in the historical flood zones
If their houses weren't all made out of gingerbread.
And/or build on higher ground
How do you prepare for a once in a thousand years kind of flood?
wow
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